AN ADDRESS r_1U
TO THE
FRIENDS OF LAW AND ORDER.
Fellow- Citizens of Ohio County:
In thus obtruding ourselves upon your notice we feel that an apology is due, and
yet we hare none to offer but those feelings of patriotism and love of country which
aheuld predominate in the heart of every Kentuckian. We, too, are Kentuckians,
and true to the blood of our sires, we feel it our duty to take our stand where duty
points. We feel assured that the great moral, religious, social and political question
whieh now agitates the country, requires the labors of every good man and true; we
therefore make this open appeal to the good sense and patriotism of our fellow -citi-
zens, and humbly ask their attention to that question — a question of more vital im-
portance than any that has rested upon the shoulders of this generation.
What is that question, and how did it arise? The latter part of the eighteenth^
and the beginning of the nineteenth century, was a period of revolutions; revolutions
not only in government, but in the opinions and actions of men: freedom of action
begat freedom of thought, and these combined have resulted in a series of brilliant
and important discoveries, that have far surpassed all former ages. This present gen-
eration has been but one triumphal march of the arts and sciences. Improvements
not of the visionary, but of the practical and useful, have crowded upon us until man's
laber is more than half performed by the yielding elements; all the necessaries, con-
veniences, and elegances of life are furnished us at less than half their former cost;
and yet the prices of manual labor have advanced. Such a state of improvement in
the physical condition of the community, ought to have produced an equal improve-
ment in their moral condition; for crime and misery, through all ages, have been
considered the necessary concomitants of want and poverty, whilst competence re-
moves temptation and excites to virtue.
Yet amid all the blessings that have been showered upon this happy Union, philan-
thropists have seen with astonishment that the moral condition oi our community is
at a stand stW, if not on the decline. Yes, in this favored land, where every man
should stand fired, self-poised, with the conscious dignity of an American citizen
beaming from every feature, we find men degraded and debased; where all hearts
should turn with thankfulness and adoration to the great giver of all good, we find
religion on the stands till, and wickedness and crime on the increase; where comene-
tence could not fail to crown the labors' of all if rightly applied, we yet find 6qualid
want. What is it that produces this state of things? Moral results are as necessa-
rily governed by causes as natural ones. We answer there is an Achan in the camp.
We have in our midst a great moral, social, and political evil that is degrading the
spirit, corrupting the morals, poisoning the heart, and squandering the wealth of the
community. Intemperance is abroad and to its influence have all these evils been
traced; and the proof is so positive, so self-evident, that it would seem almost labor
lc*t to array facts before you; but in endeavoring to destroy the monster evil we have
deep rooted prejudice, heartless cupidity, and designing ambition to contend with,
and must therefore contest every inch of ground. To prove that it squanders the
wealth of the community and burthens us with taxes, it is only necessary to appeal to
incontrovertible and statistical facts. Before arraying them, however, before you, it
will be necessary to state some self-evident and incontrovertible truths, known to every
man oi intelligence and observation. They are these: First, that at least three-
fourths of all the criminal prosecutions in the State, result from liquor; Second,
that at leapt our half of the lunacy of the Stafp is produced by ardent ppiritr
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Third, that fully one half of the time of our circuit courts is occupied by the trial of
criminal prosecutions or of civil suits that have had their origin in ardent spirits; and
lastly, that fully one half of the pauperism of this State, is also the result of ardent
spirits.
With these preliminaries we will now proceed to give some extracts from the Audi-
tor's Report for the year 1851.
Expenses of criminal prosecutions for p-eceding year, $24 013
Jailor s fees for dieting ironing criminals, &c, 8,024
Rewards for apprehending criminals, 900
Slaves executed, 4 900
Total
Three-fourths of this sum would be
Appropriations to lunatic asylums,
Salaries of judicial officers,
Pay of jurors,
$37,837
41,275
31.661
45.121
$28,378
$118,157
Total,
One half of which would be 59,073
"Which, added to the above three fourths of criminal p-osecntions, makes the sum of
e>gkt>( seven thousand four hundred and fifty -on* do'fars, which is drawn directly
and annually from the treasury of the State, in order that drunkards may enjoy the
glorious pi-ivilege of making beasts of themselves.
But these are but a few of the leading charges upon our State treasury resulting
from intemperance. Another large item has not been inserted, it is the sum of $19,-
587 for the support of idiots and lu.-iatics not taken to the asylums. We will not
attempt to discuss the question as to what amount of the idiocy of the country is tra-
ceable to ardent spirits but the e is no better established fact than that intemperance
in the pa ent is one of the most fruitful sources of idocy in the offspring. We pass
this disputed item, however, because without it we have facts almost too startling and
astonishing for belief ! We will glance at a few of them.
The county charges for pauperism have been estimated by the best judges at not
less than $590 to each county. The private charities bestowed upon the victims of
intemperance and their families at one half that sum. The amount of ardent spirits
aunually consumed is also estimated at 500 barrels to each county — estimating each
barrel to contain 40 gallons, and 100 counties in the State, and we have as the annual
consumption of ardent spirits in Kentucky, the enormous amount of 2 000,000 of
gallons. Say one half of this is sold to the consumer in larger quantities than the
single dram at a cos* of 30 cents per gallon, which, considering the high prices of
some of the costlier qualities, is a verv low estimate, and it produces the sum of
$300,000; estimating the other half, or 1.000 000 of gallons to behold by the glass,
or dram, at 5 cents per dram, and estimating each dram at one gill, and we find it
costs the consumer $1 60 per gallon, or the enormous sum of $1 600.000.
Then the use of ardent spirits as set forth above, in a few plain, palpable items,
may be enumerated as follows:
Amount annually drawn from the State treasury, as before stated,
One half expenses of paupers in 100 counties at $500 per county,
Amount spent in private charities,
Cost of 1.000 000 gallons of liquor at 30 cents per gallon,
Cost of 1,000,000 gallons at 5 cents per dram, or gill,
$87 451
25 000
25 000
300.000
1.600 000
Total, $2 037 451
Making the total drain upon the State, anuually, of two millions thirty-seven thou-
sand four hundred and fifty-one dollars. Yet, enormous and astounding as this
annual drain may seem it is but a small item when compared to the time wastod, the
losses sustained and the expenses incurred by the unfortunate consumer.
That it is degrading the spirit, corrupting the morals, and poisoning the heart, i?
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equally self- evident; but still let facts speak for themselves. It is estimated that in
ouv State 3.000 persons die annually the victims of intemperance; most of these
victims have families. Thousands of other families are reduced to poverty and
degradation from the same cause. Human nature is always progressive; the human
intellect is never at rest; it is continually advancing: in vi tue or vice. Each victim
of intemperance not only adds to the great a my of the vicious, but is too apt to
school his offspring in vice and crime, thus shutting out themselves and their pos-
terity from the pales of sobriety and order, giving a downward and degrading ten-
dency to generation upon generation peopling the purlieus of vice and crime for ages
yet unborn. Of this tendency we have a striking illustration in the fee o>- common
schools of our State. Kentucky, with a geneosity and munificence worthy of her
name, resolved to extend the blessings of education to every child in the State. It
is the sworn duty of the school trustees to invite the indigent children to attend
school free of charge; but do we find the children of the drunken inebriate who haa
squandered his means at the doggery there? Seldom or never; he has not the means
to elothe them like his neighbor's children ; he feels that their rags are a reflection
upon his own misconduct and he will not let his children go to the school. But the
human mind is progressive and will not remain at rest; it will be taking lessons of
some kind, and that little boy with genius and intellect beaming from his features, if
not educated in the common school, will, by the side of his parent, take lessons in
the common doggery; and that mind, capable of becoming an ornament and a bles-
sing to society, may be turned into a blighting, withering curse.
The superintendent of public instruction in his last annual report, gives the number
of parents who have no property subject to taxation at 10 449. and the children of
these parents at 25.169; and the parents having less than $100 worth of taxable
property at 11,213. and the children of these parents at 30.545. thus making in Ken-
tucky a total of 21,662 parents having little or no property, and those parents hav-
ing within the school ages, the host of 55.714 children. We intend to cast no
reflections upon the honest but unfortunate poor of the State. Some.it is true, are
unfortunately poor without any apparent fault of their own; but in this highly pros-
perous country, where it is almost impossible fo- the healthy, sober, industrious parent*
to fail in his efforts to acquire a competency. We may safely ascribe the poverty of a
large portion of these 21 662 pa-ents to intoxication, or the improper use of ardent
Bfftrite. How many *f this large army of children will be reared in ignorance, time
and our future legislation can alone develop.
Intemperance not only corrupts the riring generation, but it also debases and cor-
rupts the elective franchise. It not only has a direct tendency to keep every poor
man from office, but it corrupts and degrades the moral sense of propriety and strict
integrity; for treating is direct bribery \ nothing hss, call it by wkct'-rer name yov
r\uii ; palliate, disguise it as you mil, it is b ibery direct — hasp, palpable. For
what purpose does the candidate treat? To procu e your votf . not hi?} a else,. Was it
from his exuberant benevolence and overflowing kindness, why does he not continue
the practice after the election; but we see none of this. Nay. disguise it as you will,
the veriest dotard knows that a candidate t eats to p ocure votes, and he who ivould
procure votes by liquor, would not h 'sitate to procure th "m by mone->; m fact the
latter would seem the most hono able course. It would be fair trading for something
like value received, whilst by treating, you first cheat your victim out of his reason
and then out of his vote.
But it is useless to multiply examples of the degrading, damning influence of ardent
spirits, it pours forth its lava streams into every ramification of society — every neigh*
borhood has a monument of its ruins: eveiy family some legend of its horrors. There
is no crime in the calendar of wrong, that has not been committed under its influ-
ence. There is no duty in the calendar of virtue that has not withe ed at its approach.
There is no suffering to which humanity is incident, that it has not entailed upon our
race. There is no pleasure that thrills through the heart, that it has not turned into
mourning; and yet astonishing to relate, when the wise and the good have arisen aa
one man, to banish the monster evil, they are every where m&t with the cry, "Oh
don't bring the matter into politics!! Don't, oh don't let it bear on the elections."
Yes, liquor is loading us with taxes, destroying our wealth, degrading our children,
governing our elections, and we are appealed to with winning smiles, and crocodile
tears, and told that temperance is a most beautiful thing. ye6 a most lovely thing, but
don't, oh don't, bring it before the people. Such effrontery es this is only equalled
by the Irishman who knocked down his neighbor, entered his dwelling, insulted his
wife, kicked out his children, seized on his money, and when threatened with an ap.
peal to the arm of the law for redress, he turned to his neighbor with the most pat-
ronizing air and exclaimed. "Now Johny, I know that law and justice are most beau-
tiful things in their place — let father Daugherty talk about them in the pulpit on
Sundays, that is the place for them, my honey — but don't, oh don't, go to bringing
them into the court house, you will be after raising such a fuss and bother, if ye do it
my dear."
The Sons of Temperance have been improperly and unjustly accused of forcing this
question into politics; it is not their act it is rather a combination of causes and events
tnat have been progressing for a quarter of a century. The blight of intemperance
had arrested the attention of the philanthropist of every grade and order; temperance
assocsations of every degree had continually kept the question before the public; leg-
islative aid has been repeatedly attempted, but the most direct agent in producing the
present result, was the thorough and radical change in our organic law; under the new
constitution aho*t of candidates are thrown before the people at eve y election. This
not only threw wide the door to bribery and corruption in treating, in such a startling
manner as to a ouse public attention every where but the continual recurrence of the
question of license, or no license, which would be raided at each election of county
officers, absolutely required a reference of the whole subject to the people of the
State. Bnt during this state of public sentiment and feeling — Maine, that little State
of Maine had assumed a new position — had presented a new front to king alcohol and
his legions ; instead of wasting further time in trying to keep the monster in hands,
she exercised her natural right of banishing the monster from her territory. Herein
this age of discovery, was a discovery worthy of the age!! The means of getting rid
of the evil seemed so simple, plain, and practical, that the friends of temperance eve-
ry where exclaimed, "Banish the evil — give us a prohibitory law."
4 How could the Sons of Temperance act under these circumstances? The avowed
aim and object of their organization is to suppress the evils of intemperance, and now
when the good and virtuous of all classes are marshalling their forces for the contest —
when the very principles that called them into existence is about to triumph, shall they
sneak from the contest and say to those whom they have so long and so faithfully
warned, " Our heart is faint, our arm is weak, we cannot aid you? " No, God for-
bid that any portion of the citizens of Kentucky should act so dastardly — true to their
cause, true to their country, the Sous of Temperance enlist with alacrity in the great
army, but they are a mere corporal's guard, compared to the great masses engaged in
the cause; 6ingle handed and alone they cannot effect any thing, and the charge
against them that they wish to sap the liberties of the State, and build up a great
political party of their own, is alike equal for its falsehood and absurdity. Do they
assume any exclusive rights, or attempt any invasion of the rights of the citizen, in
the platform published at the mass meeting 'in Springfield, hear it :
"1st. We desire that a general law. founded upon the principles hereinafter set
forth, shall be submitted to the vote of the people after its passage ; and if the said
law receive a majority of the votes which are cast, it shall be in force throughout the
State.
2d. The law thus submitted should prohibit the manufacture and sale, except for
medicinal., mechanical, and sacramental purposes, of all intoxicating drinks. It
should provide in a fair, constitutional, and effectual manner, for the execution of the
principles above stated, by adequate and speedy remedies, and by reasonable and suf-
ficient penalties ; and especially it should effectually suppress the retail, traffic and all
public tippling; and prohibit minors and slaves from all dealing in said liquors under
any circumstances whatever. The detail? of said law. and the particular provision*
thereof, bpinsr Mt to thetejrislature.*'
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Here we have ell that is asked or claimed by the Sons of Temperance, or the friends
of a prohibitory law,. A suppression of the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits
for all except mechanical, medicinal, and sacramental purposes.
We will consider some of the many objections thet are raised to this platform.
1st. It is objected that although intemperance is a very great evil, it is wrong that
it should be mingled with, or brought into politics.
2d. That a prohibitory law would be unconstitutional.
3d. That it would be a violation of man's natural rights to prohibit him from mak-
ing or dealing in ardent spirits.
Let us consider the first objection, that of bringing temperance into politics, and
this objection might be answered by asking the question, how can any great question
be settled without bringing it into politics? The traffic in liquor has been a political
question for more than sixty years standing ; session after session it has been the sub-
ject of legal enactments ; from time to time, have the Legislature passed laws to re-
strain and control its use; every election since the organization of our government has
been more or less controlled by ardent spLits and yet it is laughable to hear object-
ors say, ■ you should not bring the question into politics. Just so long as poitrcal
demagogues can use intoxicating drinks to procure votes that their moral woith cannot
command, the thing is all right, but when this g, eat weapon is to be wrested from
their hands the thing is all w.oug; it should not be brought into politics. There is
but a slight difference between us ; gentlemen,, at last — you say the thiig should not
be brought into politics now. We say the thi.ig should nev^r have bpm brought into
politics, .but you have had it in politics for the last sixty years, corrupting and influ-
encing our elections ; we now ask to get it out of politics, and let our elections be free
and equal. But to dispose of this question at a word, an appeal to the people is the
only mode known to our constitution and laws to settle any great question. We now
pray an appeal to that great tribunal and you oppose it; we only ask that a law ban-
ishing the evil may be submitted to the direct vote of the people— their vote upon such
a law will settle the question; but you contend for the curse being still retained upon
them, without allowing them a vote on the subject.
Let us now examine the constitutional question — and here it may be remarked as a
singular occurrence, that so long as a large portion of the citizens were prohibited from
engaging in the traffic, and its whole profits monopolized by a few merchants and
tavern keepers we never hear the constitutionality ot a prohibitory law doubted, but
so soon as this prohibition is proposed to be extended to all classes and this very fa-
vored class is to be placed on equal footing with their fellow -citizens ; they are the very
first to make the sage discovery that a prohibitory law would be unconstitutional! !
This class certainly deserve great credit for their superior legal accumen in discover-
ing, v/hat the most profound jurists of the United States have failed to do ; yet to what
confidence should they be entitled by their fellow-citizens for not sooner revealing the
discovery, and admitting all to a share in the profits of a trade which they have so long
monopolized to themselves. Perhaps these mighty expounders of constitutional law
might think it degrading to have their opinions compared with the opinions of such
men as Judges Taney, McLean, Catron, Daniel and Grier, who have decided the ques-
tion differently ; and we shall therefore not be at the trouble of quoting their opin-
ions ; the fact is, that the constitutional question is so plain and simple that any can-
did and unprejudiced mind can form its own conclusions on the subject; in truth the
constitution is wholly silent on the point. We only need to advert one moment to
the nature of our government, and then a school boy can understand the whole ques-
tion of constitutionality as clearly as the Judge on the bench.
Ours is a confederated government; all the supreme powers of government ori-
ginally existed in the States, but by compact they have yielded a portion of these
powers to the Federal Government. The powers granted the Federal Government
are defined and set forth in the constitution of the United States; hence to test the
constitutionality of an act of Congress, we have to examine if it is within the powere
granted by that constitution, and if not in the granted powers it is unconstitutional.
Rut a very diffrr«nt rul« applie* to State Legislation. The supreme, sovereign
jJbwcr of government sliH remaining; in the States — except so far as relinquished
by compact with the Federal Government, or rename i by the State constitu-
tion — the only test of the constitutionality of a law of a State is a direct p ohibition.
Isihereaay such prohibition in the constitution of our State? We have searched for
it in vain, and we have ealleJ repeatedly upon those would-be expounders of constitu-
tional law to -now it. which none have done, for the simple reason that it was not in
the book. Two conventions have assembled and two constitutions have been formed
in Kentucky, whilst there existed on our statute books laws providing for the suppres-
sion in the sale, and for the seizure and destruction of ardent spirits, yet no clause is
inserted, no provision made in either constitution to protect the citizen from this mon-
&froii$ ontrn.'ie upon his natural rights! No, the whole question is left for the superior
leg "J aeufn a n of i i .,/?./'.? in constitutional laid!
Lat us now consider the third objection, that of its being a violation of man's natural
rights; and this question .might be disposed of in the language of an able jurist in
deciding' a (Question on an old stale demand, in which he said that he who slumbered
on his rights for twenty years should still slumber on. If the whole of the citizen*
of Kentucky, except a few merchants and tavern keepers, have slumbered over their
rights to traffic in ardent spirits for more than sixty years, had they not better slumber
on. Our Legislature have always exercised the right of controlling and limiting the
traffic, prohibiting the great mass of the people from engaging in it, yet who, until
recently, has ever complained? Who has been injured by this great infringement of ,
the natural rights of the citizen?
By resorting however to first principles, this question of natural rights can be a3
easily settled as the constitutional question. If we consider man in a state of nature,
without regard to his duties to his Creator or fellow man. he is certainly endowed with
flaoit unlimited freedom of thought and action ; but this right of unlimited free-
dom can only be enjoyed by a single individual, solitary and alone, and separate and
apart, from any other living being, endowed with equal rights, for just so sure as this
perfect freedom comes to be exercised in the presence of another individual equally
free, a collision must necessarily follow. As well might you suppose two separate,
independentmona ehs sitting upon, and governing from, the same throne, as to im-
agine two individuals in the same vicinity enjoying unrestrained liberty: men are not
he mits and to enjoy the pleasures and aids of society they gladly disrobe themselves
of those natural rights which would conflict with the rights of others; what rights
they thus surrender and what retain, are generally specified by the laws of the coun-
try under which they liv«. Our constitution; which is our organic law. carefully de-
fines all the natural rights reserve! to individuals; there is no feature of the proposed
law that will at all conflict with any of those reserved rights. But the right to make
such laws as will secure to the people the greatest amount of peace, happiness, and
security is a right incident and appertaining to all governments; without this right,
government WSuM be a mere nullity. Law is defined to be a rule of action, coin-
man ling what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. Whatever is morally, civilly,
or politically right, should be commanded by law; and whatever is morally, civilly,
Of politically wrong, should be prohibited by law. If intemperance is either morally,
civilly. 0!' politically an evil, it ia wrong, and should he prohibited by law: it has
been treate ! as an evil by all former legislation ; the legislative right to so treat it has
been claimed and exercised since the formation of our government; the proposed
prohibitory law involves no new question of right; the whole question is one of ex-
pediency. But we are met with the question of vested rights, and the man is en-
trenched behind his stilts, and claims the protection of law merely because the law
has not heretofore demolished him. According to this doctrine of vested rights, all
an individual has to do is to jprocurC a vested right in advancement of penal enact-
ment, and he is then forever safe. Thus, if the assassin should be so fortunate as to
invest a few dollars in a revolver and Bowie knife before any penal enactment against
murder, he might forever plead his vested right against the law of murder.
A fancy sketch will best illustrate this question of vested rights. Imagine a State
or Territory who have tried to exist without law, they have been trying that Utopian
phantom moral suasion, uatil necessity compels them to resort to a code of laws. —
Their first Legialatttj e is in session, and the committee on the penal code have reported
a bill, with the nsual penal enactments against murder, larceny, burglary, &c. &c
and the bill is now under discussion. *• Mr; Speaker/' exclaims the burglar, «• I shall
oppose the passage of that bill, it would destroy my vested rights; behold the money I
have invested in these picks jimmers. bars and false keys to carry on my calling." "Mr.
Speaker, " cries another, 4 - if that bill passes it will ruin me, for 1 have invested all
my money in ropes and halters, to carry on the business of horse-stealing." **■ I am
amazed/ cries out another.. '• that any set of men should have so little regard for the
rights of their fellow men ; my father died leaving me a handsome patrimony, I in-
vested the whole of it in plates, dies, types, and fixtures to carry on counterfeiting,
would the gentlemen attempt to reduce me to beggary? " Reader, had you been a
member of that Legislature, and a vested right's man, what would you have done,
changed your opinion, or moved an adjournment sine die? t
But waving all other questions and granting to the distiller the right to make, the
vender the right to scatter his poisoning draught into the bosom of the community,
and the inebriate the right to wallow in intoxication, it is still a well settled maxim
of law that where two rights come in conflict, the greater must prevail. How., then,
stands the question? Arrayed against those rights are the rights of the peaceable,
sober, tax-paying citizen, who is taxed like a Russian serf that these things may be.
The rights of the wife driven forth in the howling storm. The rights of the aged
parent mourning over the last sciou of his race, pulling down disgrace on his once
pround name. The rights of hords of half clad, half starved children skulking and
hiding from a demon lather. The rights of fond parents daily appealing to the laws
for help to protect their children from the snares of the grog shop ; and the rights of
the whole community whose feelings are insulted, their prope ty destroyed, and their
lives endangered by this blighting curse. When lights like these come in conflict,
which should prevail? Who would envy the reputation of that ehancello who would
decide the question of right in favor of the distiller or vender?
Through the medium of this address it would be impossible, to answer all the false,
foolish, and fiivilous objections that are raised to a prohibito y law ; the friends of
the law have openly, freely, and fearlessly, proclaimed their principles, and invited
public discussion; have they been thus openly met? No none have dared to meet the
question in public debate ; but privately have our principles been garbled and mis-
rep esented ; the fool s argument — the cry of humbug g ry, fanaticism — has been
croaked fo.th by every tap room orator, and designing demagogue; and craftily avoid-
ing a discussion of our p!atfo m, they have seized upon the Maine Law, and given
garbled and unfair representations of its details. Whether the Maine Law is perfect
or imperfect, is not now the question before the people of Kentucky ; the question is,
whether the retail trade in ardent spirits is such an evil as should be prohibited by
law ; the details of that law we propose to leave to the assembled wisdom of the
Legislature; whether that law will have ingrafted into it that odious right of search,
so much harped upon in the Maine Law. will depend upon the members the people
may elect. We would only remark, however, that this odious right of search, now
for the first time dragged forth to public gaze, is a feature and principle that has stood
prominent on our statute book, and been recognized as the common law of our land
from time immemorial; not a citizen of Kentucky, since she has been a State however
exhalted his station in society, but has at all times been liable to have his premises and
person searched : and although we have strained our memory back to our earliest in-
fancy, we have no recollection of ever hearing of an honest citizen of Kentucky com-
plain of the law of search ; however much burglars, counterfeiters, and thieves, may
nave dreaded and repined at this law, we venture the assertion that the law of search
has never given one honest citizen one moment's trouble!
Fellow-citizens, the friends of Temperance have f luna: their banner to the breeze —
on its broad folds are inscribed LAW, ORDER, HEALTH, PEACE. PROSPERITY,
HAPPINESS; our principles aweken and call into action every generous sentment
and feeling of the heart— look on this, and then look on the dark banner of intern-
perance ; see on its folds, in lured colors, the midnight revel, the bleeding corpse, the
drunken madman, the pale wiping wife—see, in a word, the tall pyramid of woe and
rum that it has entailed upon our race — and then choose under which banner you
will se.-ve. Generations yet unborn, a hoppier people : ■'• regenerated, redeemed and
disenthralled " from the shackles of intemperance, will look back with anxiety to the
history of the present day, and the sons of now living sires will point to the poll
books of 185.3 and say, behold!! our fathers belonged to the great army of Temper-
ance!! Choose, then, fellow-citizens, on which side you will transmit your names to
Parity. H. D, TAYLOR,
H. T. DOWNARD.